The Lucifer Rebellion

53:7.1The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion was sys­tem wide. Thirty-seven se­ced­ing Plan­e­tary Princes swung their world ad­min­is­tra­tions largely to the side of the arch­re­bel. Only on Panop­tia did the Plan­e­tary Prince fail to carry his peo­ple with him. On this world, un­der the guid­ance of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, the peo­ple ral­lied to the sup­port of Mi­chael. El­lanora, a young woman of that mor­tal realm, grasped the lead­er­ship of the hu­man races, and not a sin­gle soul on that strife-torn world en­listed un­der the Lu­cifer ban­ner. And ever since have these loyal Panop­tians served on the sev­enth Je­ru­sem tran­si­tion world as the care­tak­ers and builders on the Fa­ther’s sphere and its sur­round­ing seven de­ten­tion worlds. The Panop­tians not only act as the lit­eral cus­to­di­ans of these worlds, but they also ex­e­cute the per­sonal or­ders of Mi­chael for the em­bel­lish­ment of these spheres for some fu­ture and un­known use. They do this work as they tarry en route to Eden­tia.

53:7.2Through­out this pe­riod Cali­gas­tia was ad­vo­cat­ing the cause of Lu­cifer on Uran­tia. The Mel­chiz­e­deks ably op­posed the apos­tate Plan­e­tary Prince, but the soph­ist­ries of un­bri­dled lib­erty and the delu­sions of self-as­ser­tion had ev­ery op­por­tu­nity for de­ceiv­ing the prim­i­tive peo­ples of a young and un­de­vel­oped world.

53:7.3All se­ces­sion pro­pa­ganda had to be car­ried on by per­sonal ef­fort be­cause the broad­cast ser­vice and all other av­enues of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion were sus­pended by the ac­tion of the sys­tem cir­cuit super­vi­sors. Upon the ac­tual out­break of the in­sur­rec­tion the en­tire sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia was iso­lated in both the con­stel­la­tion and the uni­verse cir­cuits. Dur­ing this time all in­com­ing and out­go­ing mes­sages were dis­patched by se­raphic agents and Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. The cir­cuits to the fallen worlds were also cut off, so that Lu­cifer could not uti­lize this av­enue for the fur­ther­ance of his ne­far­i­ous scheme. And these cir­cuits will not be re­stored so long as the arch­re­bel lives within the con­fines of Sa­ta­nia.

53:7.4This was a La­non­an­dek re­bel­lion. The higher or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship did not join the Lu­cifer se­ces­sion, al­though a few of the Life Car­ri­ers sta­tioned on the rebel plan­ets were some­what in­flu­enced by the re­bel­lion of the dis­loyal princes. None of the Trin­i­tized Sons went astray. The Mel­chiz­e­deks, arch­an­gels, and the Bril­liant Evening Stars were all loyal to Mi­chael and, with Ga­briel, valiantly con­tended for the Fa­ther’s will and the Son’s rule.

53:7.5No be­ings of Par­a­dise ori­gin were in­volved in dis­loy­alty. To­gether with the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers they took up head­quar­ters on the world of the Spirit and re­mained un­der the lead­er­ship of the Faith­ful of Days of Eden­tia. None of the con­cil­ia­tors apo­s­ta­tized, nor did a sin­gle one of the Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers go astray. But a heavy toll was taken of the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions and the Man­sion World Teach­ers.

53:7.6Of the su­preme or­der of ser­a­phim, not an an­gel was lost, but a con­sid­er­able group of the next or­der, the su­pe­rior, were de­ceived and en­snared. Like­wise a few of the third or super­vi­sor or­der of an­gels were mis­led. But the ter­ri­ble break­down came in the fourth group, the ad­min­is­tra­tor an­gels, those ser­a­phim who are nor­mally as­signed to the du­ties of the sys­tem cap­i­tals. Man­otia saved al­most two thirds of them, but slightly over one third fol­lowed their chief into the rebel ranks. One third of all the Je­ru­sem cheru­bim at­tached to the ad­min­is­tra­tor an­gels were lost with their dis­loyal ser­a­phim.

53:7.7Of the plan­e­tary an­gelic helpers, those as­signed to the Ma­te­rial Sons, about one third were de­ceived, and al­most ten per cent of the tran­si­tion min­is­ters were en­snared. In sym­bol John saw this when he wrote of the great red dragon, say­ing: “And his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven and cast them down in dark­ness.”

53:7.8The great­est loss oc­curred in the an­gelic ranks, but most of the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gence were in­volved in dis­loy­alty. Of the 681,217 Ma­te­rial Sons lost in Sa­ta­nia, ninety-five per cent were ca­su­al­ties of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. Large num­bers of mid­way crea­tures were lost on those in­di­vid­ual plan­ets whose Plan­e­tary Princes joined the Lu­cifer cause.

53:7.9In many re­spects this re­bel­lion was the most wide­spread and dis­as­trous of all such oc­cur­rences in Neb­a­don. More per­son­al­i­ties were in­volved in this in­sur­rec­tion than in both of the oth­ers. And it is to their ev­er­last­ing dis­honor that the emis­saries of Lu­cifer and Sa­tan spared not the in­fant-train­ing schools on the fi­nal­i­ter cul­tural planet but rather sought to cor­rupt these de­vel­op­ing minds in mercy sal­vaged from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

53:7.10The as­cend­ing mor­tals were vul­ner­a­ble, but they with­stood the soph­ist­ries of re­bel­lion bet­ter than the lower spir­its. While many on the lower man­sion worlds, those who had not at­tained fi­nal fu­sion with their Ad­justers, fell, it is re­corded to the glory of the wis­dom of the as­cen­sion scheme that not a sin­gle mem­ber of the Sa­ta­nia as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship res­i­dent on Je­ru­sem par­tic­i­pated in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

53:7.11Hour by hour and day by day the broad­cast sta­tions of all Neb­a­don were thronged by the anx­ious watch­ers of ev­ery imag­in­able class of ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gence, who in­tently pe­rused the bul­letins of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion and re­joiced as the re­ports con­tin­u­ously nar­rated the unswerv­ing loy­alty of the as­cend­ing mor­tals who, un­der their Mel­chiz­e­dek lead­er­ship, suc­cess­fully with­stood the com­bined and pro­tracted ef­forts of all the sub­tle evil forces which so swiftly gath­ered around the ban­ners of se­ces­sion and sin.

53:7.12It was over two years of sys­tem time from the be­gin­ning of the “war in heaven” un­til the in­stal­la­tion of Lu­cifer’s suc­ces­sor. But at last the new Sov­er­eign came, land­ing on the sea of glass with his staff. I was among the re­serves mo­bi­lized on Eden­tia by Ga­briel, and I well re­mem­ber the first mes­sage of Lanaforge to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. It read: “Not a sin­gle Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen was lost. Ev­ery as­cen­dant mor­tal sur­vived the fiery trial and emerged from the cru­cial test tri­umphant and al­to­gether vic­to­ri­ous.” And on to Sal­ving­ton, Uversa, and Par­a­dise went this mes­sage of as­sur­ance that the sur­vival ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tal as­cen­sion is the great­est se­cu­rity against re­bel­lion and the surest safe­guard against sin. This no­ble Je­ru­sem band of faith­ful mor­tals num­bered just 187,432,811.

53:7.13With the ar­rival of Lanaforge the arch­re­bels were de­throned and shorn of all gov­ern­ing pow­ers, though they were per­mit­ted freely to go about Je­ru­sem, the mor­ontia spheres, and even to the in­di­vid­ual in­hab­ited worlds. They con­tin­ued their de­cep­tive and se­duc­tive ef­forts to con­fuse and mis­lead the minds of men and an­gels. But as con­cerned their work on the ad­min­is­tra­tive mount of Je­ru­sem, “their place was found no more.”

53:7.14While Lu­cifer was de­prived of all ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity in Sa­ta­nia, there then ex­isted no lo­cal uni­verse power nor tri­bu­nal which could de­tain or de­stroy this wicked rebel; at that time Mi­chael was not a sov­er­eign ruler. The An­cients of Days sus­tained the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers in their seizure of the sys­tem gov­ern­ment, but they have never handed down any sub­se­quent de­ci­sions in the many ap­peals still pend­ing with re­gard to the pres­ent sta­tus and fu­ture dis­po­si­tion of Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and their as­so­ciates.

53:7.15Thus were these arch­re­bels al­lowed to roam the en­tire sys­tem to seek fur­ther pen­e­tra­tion for their doc­trines of dis­con­tent and self-as­ser­tion. But in al­most two hun­dred thou­sand Uran­tia years they have been un­able to de­ceive an­other world. No Sa­ta­nia worlds have been lost since the fall of the thirty-seven, not even those younger worlds peo­pled since that day of re­bel­lion.